My personal concern is that the Australian Government is spending our money at ever increasing logarithmic rates supporting a nonsensical policy.
Folks,
The answer is to change the big spending government --- it is naught to do with any charter broker.
Twobags has just about got it right, it is an annual "tender" of sorts, so there is an annual opportunity to join the panel.
Adagold is a very successful business because they are very good at what they do. This ratbag government and the way they have mishandled the boat people policy
( remember it was Rudd who started the boat race, do you really believe he now has the answer) has been a bonanza for a number of operators from a number of companies from a number of countries ----
but lay the blame for this huge flow of taxpayers dollars where it belongs, with the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd Labor government.
After all, we are talking billions of taxpayers or borrowed (remember the current deficit) $$$$$, not just mere millions. And now the AUD is slipping, the interest cost of servicing the borrowings to pay the federal government's bills/defecit goes through the roof.
As for those of you sounding off about BARS, grow up. It is the (mostly) mining industry that demands this, and anybody who is a BARS accredited auditor can perform an audit --- and there are quite a few around. There is no need to import anybody. BARS is an excellent idea, generally being well handled.
BARS has become the non-scheduled equivalent of the IOSA audits for all members of IATA. If you think "compliance with CASA rules" is good enough, you really don't know much about what happens with a BARS or IOSA audit, or the intent of such audits.
As a very wise former CEO of CASA ( and there ain't too many of them) said:
" A [CASA] compliant operator is not necessarily a safe operator, a non-compliant operator is not necessarily an unsafe operator".
I thought CASA was there to keep every one in line, just as there is bad operators there are also bad brokers. Rules and Regs are there to protect everyone.
Well, Mick, you thunk wrong.
CASA is NOT a commercial regulator, indeed its Act and Regulations specifically bars CASA from making decisions on other than air safety grounds ---- CASA cannot (legally) intervene in aviation commercial matters. Could I suggest you spend a little time familiarizing yourself with said Act and Regulations, so you at least have a glimmer of what they actually say.
Tootle pip!!